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By: lynn ohttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/comment-page-2/#comment-2247546
Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:54:55 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/#comment-2247546To understand this, “we must redefine our average stress as many layers of mental work we carry with us that take away real mental energy leaving less mental energy to think, learn, concentrate, and enjoy the learning process. This differential treatment creates very real differences in learning by individual and by group.
The problem involves two entirely different treatments of Males and Females as early as one year of age and increases in differential treatment. This is creating the growing Male Crisis. The belief Males should be strong allows aggressive treatment of Males as early as one year, designed to create more layers of agitation, fear, and tension, so they will be prepared to fight, defend, and be tough. This is coupled with much “less” kind, stable, (very little verbal interaction) and less mental/emotional/social support, knowledge, and skills for fear of coddling. This increases over time and continued by society from peers, teachers and others in society. This creates more social/emotional distance from parents and other authority figures who have knowledge; lags in communication, vocabulary, sentence structure; also higher average stress (more layers of mental agitated conflicts, fears taking away real mental energy) that hurts learning and motivation to learn; also more activity due to need for stress relief; also more defensiveness and wariness of others further hindering emotional and social growth; and higher muscle tension (creating more pressure on pencil and tighter grip) that hurts writing and motivation to write. It creates much lag in development creating a learned sense of helplessness in school. This differential treatment continues through adulthood, almost fixing many Males onto roads of failure and escape into more short-term areas of enjoyment. Also society gives Males love and honor (essential needs for self-worth) only on condition of some achievement or status. This was designed to keep Male esteem and feelings of self-worth low to keep them striving and even give their lives in time of war for small measures of love and honor. Males not achieving in school or other are given more ridicule and discipline to make them try harder. Support is not an option for fear of coddling. Many Males thus falling behind in academics then turn their attention toward video games and sports to receive small measures of love/honor not received in the classroom.
As for reading, we need high social vocabulary, social experience with sentence structure, and “lower average stress to perform the abstract skill of reading: decoding, visualizing, organizing, reaching back into our social vocabulary to learn new words in print, and enjoying the process. Boys are deprived in these areas due to much less care, interaction, and more aggressive treatment in general.
I feel the shows of masculinity, misbehavior are pretty much copouts to both show separation from failure in school and to gleam small measures of love and honor from peers. The defensiveness from authority is really pretty straight forward, especially in lower socioeconomic areas where strength, power, and status hold very real currency in those areas. So for those students it not just misbehavior but for them, a tug of war or fight for minimum feelings of self-worth from a continual fight they feel outside the classroom as well as in.
The suicide epidemic is the result of Males being deprived sufficiently from those essential feelings of self-worth of less love and honor simply for being boys or men. The training they are given from an early age is preventing many of them from competing in the information age and thus losing the means to secure legally, income, status, power to earn in some way love and honor from society. This creates over time, psychological suffering that wears down their remaining feelings of self-worth to the point of suicide. As girls, we are treated much better and so enjoy more hope and care from society.
Since we as girls by differential treatment are given much more positive, continual, mental, emotional/social support verbal interaction and care from an early age onward this creates quite the opposite outcome for girls compared with boys. We enjoy much more continuous care and support from infancy through adulthood and receive love and honor simply for being girls. This creates all of the good things: lower average stress for more ease of learning (we do enjoy much freedom of expression that make us look less stable at times); lower muscle tension for better handwriting/motivation; higher social vocabulary/low stress for reading/motivation; much more positive, trust/communication with adults, teachers, peers; and much more support for perceived weaknesses. We are reaping a bonanza in the information age. The lower the socioeconomic bracket and time in that bracket the more amplified the differential treatment from a young age and increased and more differentiated over time. My learning theory and article on the Male Crisis will go to all on request or can be read from my home site at http://learningtheory.homestead.com/Theory.html
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Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:09:17 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/#comment-2015770it depends
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Sat, 21 Jun 2014 05:10:28 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/#comment-1775162Female pupils/students will typically know more about things that can be learned by sitting around.
Male pupils/students will better grasp concepts that one must actually get off their butt to learn…in my opinion. So don’t argue with me. I hate that.
]]>By: Brooke O.http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/comment-page-2/#comment-1756214
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:50:17 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/#comment-1756214I definitely think girls in are getting better grades than most boys in my school. I mean there are some smart boys at my school and there are some in advanced math classes too but there are more girls in advanced math anyway. I am a seventh grader and there are some really smart sixth graders in my math class. I think there are six kids a year younger than me and all but one are girls.
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Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:36:03 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/#comment-1741639Lol No, I’m at a boys school

And when i was at a mixed school the boys did way better and girls did bad

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Tue, 20 May 2014 01:55:44 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/#comment-1710142Wow!! As a girl I do feel proud. Especially because I can see it happen in my class the MOST.
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Sun, 18 May 2014 11:15:10 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/#comment-1705471Today’s academic curriculum is more girl-oriented. Sit down, be quiet, non-tactile, high language, less play. The skills it takes for a young student to be successful are skills that girls naturally have. Boys do not have the opportunity to move about, utilize their more developed spatial sense. It’s almost a set-up from the beginning.
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Thu, 15 May 2014 17:58:54 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/#comment-1697662girls focus a lot in school because girls want a good future and have a nice life and job. girls study more than boys. boys in my school just don’t always care about school and they space out a lot in the classroom . some boys just want to herrey out of school and go home and play video games . girls get much better grades than boy . all people should be treated the same even if your mental challenge person .boys like to not be board in school they sometimes like action in schools they need to grange the teachers around
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Thu, 15 May 2014 17:57:47 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/#comment-1697656To me in my school it seems that the girls and the boys get grade about the same amount. Being smart doesn’t always make you feel like the most important, but sometimes like in my school a lot of the smart people play sports so they are popular because they all love sports. So I guess what I’m trying to say is yes maybe in other cases it may be different but in my case the smart people aren’t popular or have a higher status they have a higher status because of sports. It seems equal to me. I think the boys in higher education have more expectations from parents and that is why they tend to not struggle. Honestly I don’t know what we as a country have to do we might have to go to stricter schools to get people to pay attention.
]]>By: Summerhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/comment-page-2/#comment-1697651
Thu, 15 May 2014 17:57:12 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/do-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-in-your-school/#comment-1697651At my school, it really depends on what subject it is, i think that girls and boys both have grades that may be fairly the same, but if a student (boy or girl)… does not try as hard as his or her classmates they may do worse in school, like if a boy and a girl were in a home economics class, the girl might be more apr tp want to cook, and sew while boys may think its unnecessary to learn these things, causing their grade to go down, also girls tend to pay more attention during classes, but thats just my opinion. “Popularity” doesn’t really depend on the grades you get, you could have bad grades and still be in the “popular group” for boys but for girls, you might have to be smarter than others to be in the popular group, at my school anyways, boys may do well in private school because they don’t have the distraction of maybe trying to impress someone, and also private school are probably more strict than public schooling systems. We could help boys learn by letting them learn the way they learn the best, because everyone learns differently.
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